Example sentences of "as [adv] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there were fewer residents this year ( the Coburg Course was to follow shortly ) , the week was as full as ever of fun and laughter and top-notch Medau . |
| 2 | This sudden declaration of sensitivity struck her as out of character and oddly demeaning . |
| 3 | However by 1941 , almost the entire membership had either found war work or was employed in the surviving Edinburgh printing offices , and by then only 2 members were listed as out of work . |
| 4 | There were between a quarter and a half a million people registered as out of work . |
| 5 | Numbers registered as out of work rose from just over a million in 1979 to over 3 million in 1983 . |
| 6 | As by the time any new formula is developed and implemented the information will be nearly as out of date as that used in the RAWP review , any new analysis may be little more informative than the last with respect to the role of social variables . |
| 7 | Contrary to older views — which saw him as out of favour in papal government under Celestine III ( from the Boboni family ) — he signs most of the papal privileges in the seven years between 1191 and 1197 . |
| 8 | So out of habit as much as out of duty , he turned his captured horse and rode again towards the enemy . |
| 9 | Most political scientists quickly came to argue that things had gone badly wrong : some groups were too powerful and the system as a whole was seen as out of control so that there was an overload of demands on government . |
| 10 | In the first place , she is n't as out of step as Labour politicians , who themselves have many reservations about some versions of political union , would like to think . |
| 11 | But perhaps it classified him as out of action , impotent despite his puissant armour . |
| 12 | An error on the monthly computer tape supplied by Penguin to Whitaker Bibliographic Services has led to over 2,000 Penguin titles being wrongly designated as out of print . |
| 13 | Gentlemanly distaste for ‘ trade ’ is as out of place in sport as it is in the Conservative Party of Mrs Thatcher . |
| 14 | In the changing conceptual frame inside which a science progresses , it would be as out of place to look for progress as in the styles of an art . |
| 15 | At Regine 's , where Jody Scheckter would have been as out of place as a hyena at a symphony concert , James was thoroughly at home . |
| 16 | I have been asked to give my views on the most important events and changes in the ‘ domain of art and artistic culture ’ over the last ten years , which I have agreed to do , as much out of friendship for the Giornale dell'Arte ( and its editor ) as out of vanity ( let's be honest ) . |
| 17 | There 's nothing on Lovesexy as supersaturated as ‘ Adore ’ , as out of kilter as ‘ Ballad of Dorothy Parker ’ or as vacant and cretinizingly compulsive as ‘ Hot Thing ’ . |
| 18 | But we must not confuse any of that with a static universalist understanding of the personality , nor — out of respect for the women of our past as well as out of respect for the truth — simply write over their self-identity . |
| 19 | The writer was Ford Madox Ford , who was among the most loyal as he had been among the first of Pound 's friends ; in the twenties he was as penurious and as out of fashion as Pound . |
| 20 | These are as out of fashion as boned corsets or shoulder pads . |
| 21 | We agreed that without our set we felt as out of touch as two visitors from outer space . |
| 22 | They are as out of touch will hill reality as some walkers and climbers ! |
| 23 | Erm European liberalism is based upon , is based upon context as well of secularism . |
| 24 | The department was ‘ determined to avoid sequences of letters that are obscene or insulting ’ , and so put a complete ban on WET and DRY , on PIG and RAT , on FAG and DYK , on FEM and GYP , on ODD and POT , as well of course on SEX and SIN . |
| 25 | This was a bar that er went under the bomb like that when they fastened them up , and then when they dropped the bombs this bar was in a clip , like where me finger is , i in a clip so when they released them it dropped out of this clip the bar went as well of course , down that went down went the bomb drop bars with it used to be make them day and night and things like that and er of course there was er Bloxwich Lock and Stamping we used to do odd stamping , odd forgings and things li and er that was other part of the war work . |
| 26 | There are professional carers as well of course , who are paid to care for other people , but this discussion is probably going to concentrate on the problems of home carers . |
| 27 | but of course erm as a sort of public to the er , er a gesture to the public erm but one stage during the war when things were getting a bit grim on the war front , it was decided that erm , we should work extra hours as erm , to show that we were pulling our weight , so we used to , instead of starting at nine o'clock until erm half past five , and working on Saturdays as well of course , erm , we had to start at half past eight and finish at six and it was a bit of a fiasco really because nobody erm , you know , well the end of the half past five you were pretty well tired out so erm the rest of the time |
| 28 | Well , that 's true , that 's true as well of course . |
| 29 | Unless you wanted to do something in the kitchen as well of course . |
| 30 | ‘ And there is the possibility of intertrading between members as well of course . ’ |